This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
crypto: api - Disallow identical driver names
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
crypto-api-disallow-identical-driver-names.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 27016f75f5ed47e2d8e0ca75a8ff1f40bc1a5e27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 18:36:57 +0800
Subject: crypto: api - Disallow identical driver names
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 27016f75f5ed47e2d8e0ca75a8ff1f40bc1a5e27 upstream.
Disallow registration of two algorithms with identical driver names.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
crypto/algapi.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/crypto/algapi.c
+++ b/crypto/algapi.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ static struct crypto_larval *__crypto_re
}
if (!strcmp(q->cra_driver_name, alg->cra_name) ||
+ !strcmp(q->cra_driver_name, alg->cra_driver_name) ||
!strcmp(q->cra_name, alg->cra_driver_name))
goto err;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/crypto-api-disallow-identical-driver-names.patch
queue-4.19/hwrng-core-fix-page-fault-dead-lock-on-mmap-ed-hwrng.patch
